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Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #23: Prerequisites. by Romy the Cat on 2013-06-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Canadian Speaker Proposal in Horn-Loaded Speakers  56 Replies 
The whole notion of the de Charlus’ quest I find to be very interesting. Charlus feels that only use horn topology and compression drivers is able to deliver “superior” audio result, at least it was his experience. I do not feel that horn topolog...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #86: Hypocrisy, stupidity or just talking advantage of ignorance? by Romy the Cat on 2009-09-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: ... again on GOTO Unit drivers... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  108 Replies 
[quote user="twogoodears"] I learned nonetheless to use for my (limited) task (fine tuning my speakers and audio system in my music room) the great IVIE IE-30 R.T.A. and IVIE IE-20 white/pink noise generator [/quote] You do not need white/pink...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #6: CES: New horn guy in town. by Romy the Cat on 2005-01-10 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The CES 2005 in Audio Discussions  16 Replies 
Someone stopped me at the Alexis Park and told me: “Romy, there is a new Israeli guy in town with  his amassing horn. He has a room at the St. Tropes and you should go”. I was almost offended! There was a new horn guy and I never insulted him?!!...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #36: The waste of time! by Romy the Cat on 2010-01-06 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The new FM Classical scene in Boston in Off Air Audio  47 Replies 
http://classical-scene.com/2010/01/06/wgbh-wcrb-panel-discussion-great-success/ I would disagree and would hardly be calling the WGBH Panel Discussion a “great success”. In fact I am calling the event as “great disappointment”. S...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1610: Oh, come on! by Romy the Cat on 2018-07-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="OracleAV"] Are you kidding?  What is the purpose for any of us audiophile spending thousands of dollars for dedicated AC circuits, for clean power through AC regeneration?   It is to have improve the quality of the sound - be it thro...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #17: Follow-up: New horn guy in town. by Romy the Cat on 2005-02-09 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The CES 2005 in Audio Discussions  16 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"] Someone stopped me at the Alexis Park and told me: “Romy, there is a new Israeli guy in town with  his amassing horn. He has a room at the St. Tropes and you should go”. I was almost offended! There was a new horn g...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #64: Another more or less reasonable attempt using Goto. by Romy the Cat on 2011-04-07 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Eventually - a reasonable midbass horn from GOTO in Horn-Loaded Speakers  97 Replies 
[quote user="tuyen"]This is my current 4-way GOTO setup. I know it is in no way optimal but I am interested to find ways I can improve it's layout. GOTO SG-38WN woofer in 360L onken cabinetGOTO SG-505TT mid-low driver with Azurahorn AH-160 ho...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #37: Truth and fiction. by Romy the Cat on 2011-05-30 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Munich High End 2011 in Horn-Loaded Speakers  45 Replies 
It is very self-evident for kind public this clown is working. From all BS that was expressed about me I would point just two facts: 1) I never kicked Joe Roberts from my site and according to site's memebers log he keeps visiting daily.2) I d...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #83: So far it has nothing to do with Goto. by Romy the Cat on 2011-06-24 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Eventually - a reasonable midbass horn from GOTO in Horn-Loaded Speakers  97 Replies 
[quote user="tuyen"]When i change the cutoff of the 505tt to 200hz and 250hz, I experience that same 'hole' you mention about.  Hence why I was questioning if it is the 160hz le'clech horn causing this and if using the goto s150 horn with it's di...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: About the serious Chinese High-End by Romy the Cat on 2009-08-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: RCA driver made in China in Horn-Loaded Speakers  2 Replies 
Thanks, Keith. I isolated this topic in a separate thread, reading to the end you might understand why. Those commentaries that something is “100% original” I usually take with a lot of suspicion and it usually is an indication that the peo...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #5: Who knows better? by Romy the Cat on 2014-11-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Those Video broadcasts from High-End shows. in Audio News  4 Replies 
Well, writing a critical material about the Moronity of audio videos out there I presumably put myself in a position of a person "who knows better". The reality of the things is that if I do believe that I know better and if my task would be t...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #94: Amir, can we stand back a bit.... by Romy the Cat on 2019-10-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: My Audio Philosophy in Playback Listening  95 Replies 
[quote user="Amir"] i think the audio industry destroyed audio.[/quote] Amir, yes it is very much true but not in the context you think it is true. The main force of audio industry distraction of audio was not introduction of bad equipment or fau...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: The short "6C33C Survival Guide". by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-18 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The short "6C33C Survival Guide". in Melquiades Amplifier  20 Replies 
Was talking with various audio people about the 6C33C I was amazed that people are so clueless about this tube. The people are so filled with some foolish prejudges and faulty notions about 6C33C that I deseeded to put together a brief “6C33C user ma...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #18: GOTO's price politic as GOTO primary deterrence. by Romy the Cat on 2007-12-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Eventually - a reasonable midbass horn from GOTO in Horn-Loaded Speakers  97 Replies 
I would like to make a few comments about the entire idea of those expensive Japanese compression drivers: GOTO, ALE and alike. I have voiced the near-similar outlook about the irrational exuberance that some audio people express about electromagnet ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Zanden 2500S CD player + some general attitude comments. by Romy the Cat on 2009-11-03 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Zanden 2500S CD player + some general attitude comments. in Didital Things  4 Replies 
I was asked a few days ago what I think about Zandèn new CD player and I replied that I do not think about it. Truly, those companies produce new models each 18 month to initiate new rounds of cash extraction from clueless, deaf and blind audi...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: Some comments. by Romy the Cat on 2009-03-11 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How many Bits needed for FM, the Accuphase T1000 dilemma. in Off Air Audio  6 Replies 
I posted this request at the Yahoo FM group, the place reportedly owned by the Reichsführer-SS Bob Fitzgerald, I have mention that Moron-wanna-be-in-charge before. Thankfully that cretin does not show up there and the air in that bulletin blog is fre...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #133: The power saga, another round by Romy the Cat on 2008-08-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: It’s mad, mad, mad... electricity. in Audio Discussions  1910 Replies 
[quote user="Romy the Cat"]I did not say how my saga with APS Pure Power regenerator finish but it never finished. Since the end of the last year the regenerators is sitting in my closet and I have sent the unit’s main board to APS people for the “re...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #3: The 15 Commandments of Ultimate Preamp. by Romy the Cat on 2009-05-25 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: A quests for an ultimate preamp. in Audio Discussions  8 Replies 
It kind of strange that so many manufactures produce preamps, so many users use preamps but no one talks about them seriously. The dealers sell them, the reviewers write their doodle but the manufactures do each year a new version but what we, th...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #13: Very interesting... by Romy the Cat on 2019-04-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Valve Preamplifier for Macondo/DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
[quote user="anthony"]My preferred source is a Phasure NOS1a G3 dac.  The thing has no discernible sound of it's own.  It outputs 1.25VRMS SE and I run it at -6dB because it needs a little attenuation to sound its best which means 0.625VRMS.  I d...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #15: A long story about Phasure and the Placette by anthony on 2019-04-27 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Valve Preamplifier for Macondo/DSET in Melquiades Amplifier  74 Replies 
Romy, I will attempt to fill you in on some backstory. My Placette was purchased from a guy in France.  My dac is made in the Netherlands.  To an Australian that is just like next door.  I have a good and strong rel...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: Some "philosophy". by Romy the Cat on 2015-06-22 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Designing and building a 5 channel horn loaded (looking for ... in Horn-Loaded Speakers  73 Replies 
OK, sounds reasonable. There are plenty concerns that I would rise with the speaker idea you proposed. However, lately begin to feel that many of the things I have stated or might state in audio do not find proper ears to be herd. It is not that w...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #4: In a scale of audio industry hierarchy…. by Romy the Cat on 2015-01-02 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: MartinLogan Montis Speakers in Audio Discussions  11 Replies 
Cody, sweat hart, why do you do it to me? Why are you making me at the very first day to destroy the very best in me? Just last night I made a New Year resolution promising to be kinder to the idiots who are forming high-end audio industry and tod...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #9: The DPoLS ceremony in a Boston apartment. by Romy the Cat on 2017-12-26 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: The remarkable moments in Audio. in Audio Discussions  16 Replies 
This was the most astonishing and bewildering moment of my entire audio life. It was in 2000. That time I lived in cozy downtown Boston apartment that I absolutely loved. The apartment sounded fabulously with pretty much any playback you put in. A...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #7: OK, it is more clear now, thanks to you. by Romy the Cat on 2018-05-14 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: New superlative horn build - ESD acoustic in Horn-Loaded Speakers  92 Replies 
[quote user="martinshorn"] Indeed you sound a little racist, but i think we all have our prejudice.  [/quote]   I do not think that it is racist in any way or form. Racism is a prejudice against a race in my case it is prejudice and historic...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #14: Sometimes I disagree with myself. by Romy the Cat on 2018-01-04 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: How difficult is it to achieve Vox Olympian sound in Horn-Loaded Speakers  17 Replies 
[quote user="martinshorn"]But I replied assuming such a question is raised by someone who has experienced DIY background and basics how to „design sound“. This is of course a precondition. Of course we can’t list a „kit“ here. If we could, the VO...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #1: Lamm LP2 phonostage: review of review. by Romy the Cat on 2005-03-05 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Lamm LP2 phonostage: review of review. in Analog Playback  2 Replies 
I like to stress a point that the mammals that write thier doodles for audio publication are not juts ignorant fools but also the cheap, low class, falseificators. No wonder that the audio manufacturing companies do employ the so-called reviewers as ...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #133: To break through my arrogance by Romy the Cat on 2015-10-20 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Another time aligned 5-way horn project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  189 Replies 
[quote user="Murataltuev"]Is any technical background behind the statement that 4" driver can't operate in 300-1000Hz because resonance is too low ? [/quote] Well, you need to define what does it mean “can't operate”? Anything can operate anywhere...

Read the Post in new Window Read the Post in Threaded view  Post #134: Mid-bass horn integration by Murataltuev on 2015-10-21 
Browse the content of the threads in new Window  Thread: Another time aligned 5-way horn project in Horn-Loaded Speakers  189 Replies 
 Romy the Cat wrote: Well, you need to define what does it mean “can't oper...
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